About a decade ago, the NY Times wrote a story about an event and a group I started. I was interviewed and my wife was present, occasionally saying something.

About a decade ago, the NY Times wrote a story about an event and a group I started. I was interviewed and my wife was present, occasionally saying something. When I read the piece that came out, it was clear the writer had a story line and anything that interfered with the story line was omitted. At least one of the quotes attributed to me was said by my wife. There was no Medium at that time so I wrote a rebuttal piece on my blog. The author of the NY Times story thought it was great that I had a chance to give my take on the whole thing, which I thought was grand because his piece was on the NY Times and mine was on a personal blog. Before then, I knew that you couldn't trust what's written in newspapers, particularly those that favor story telling to make the news more interesting. The incident really drove home that opinion. This is not to say that Amazon is a good place to work. There's been a lot of substantive reports that it isn't a decent workplace. However, it's not surprising the NY Times cherry-picks its quotes to backup the theme of the article.